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A sacral building in the Smaal yard adjacent to the cathedral of St. Václav in Olomouc
Drobilíková, P. ; Hašek, Vladimír ; Hlobil, I. ; Zapletal, J.
This article describes the finding of a sacral building - a small church (found in a Small yard adjacent to the cathedral of St. Václav). Geophysical survey over the area determined substantial features of the church - 14 m long and 11 m wide. Our results have revealed about the archaeological history of this place, in the second half of the 9th century AD there was constructed a sacral stone mound with iron ingots, around the mound was a clay - and - timber wall reinforced by stone elements. A large midden was found in front of the walls, with deposits from the 10th through the beginning of the 12th century. In the midden was found a burial from the 11th century and a huge quantity of sherds, animal bones, etc. On a destroyed part of the walls was constructed a small sacral building at the beginning of the 12th century, demolished in 1131, when the cathedral´s construction began.

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